Controller

In my controller, I have an array store in this variable $month_g

dd($month_g);

I got

array:12 [▼
  0 => array:2 [▼
    "up_bytes" => 277664452
    "down_bytes" => 198868462
  ]
  1 => array:2 [▼
    "up_bytes" => 0
    "down_bytes" => 0
  ]
  2 => array:2 [▶]
  3 => array:2 [▶]
  4 => array:2 [▶]
  5 => array:2 [▶]
  6 => array:2 [▶]
  7 => array:2 [▶]
  8 => array:2 [▶]
  9 => array:2 [▶]
  10 => array:2 [▶]
  11 => array:2 [▶]
]

return view('page.index', get_defined_vars());

I want to be able to access this variable in my JS/View.

View

index.blade.php

I've tried

@extends('layouts.internal.master')
@section('content')

..... // content in HTML

@stop

@section('pagescripts')
    <script>
        console.log('{{$month_g}}');
    </script> 
@stop

Result

I kept getting

htmlentities() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

But console.log() is capable of printing out an array.

Questions

How do I console.log that out ? What did I miss here ?

What is the best way to access controller variables within Javascript ?

If $month_g is a PHP array, you want to first convert it to JSON so that javascript can use it.

<script>
var month_g = <?php echo json_encode($month_g) ?>;

console.log(month_g);
</script>

PHP's json_encode method is the safest way to output PHP variables to be javascript variables in general. Even if you think the variable is an integer or simple string, json_encode it anyway just to be safe.

Side note, you can also use Laravel's way instead of PHP tags if you prefer. Just note you need to use {!! instead of {{ so that the output isn't escaped.

<script>
var month_g = {!! json_encode($month_g) !!};

Try json_encode()

 return view('page.index', ['month_g' => json_encode($month_g)];

and from your view

@section('pagescripts')
<script>
    console.log('{!! $month_g !!}');
</script> 
@stop